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Giants, toasters, Bobos, crooked senators, and more.11:00 PM, Oct 27, 2002 • By THE DAILY STANDARD welcomes letters to the editor. Letters will be edited for length and clarity and must include the writer's name, city, and state.
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I have been frustrated by the great American toaster for several years (Larry Miller, You Gotta Have a Toaster, Right?). I have taken the cheap toaster route, I have taken the expensive toaster route. None of them last for more than six months. The great American toaster no longer exists.
Read more... A sign of hope at a punk-rock concert in Southern California.12:00 AM, Oct 7, 2002 • By LARRY MILLERI have some good news for you. In fact, some great news. When I heard it, I laughed out loud (hooted, in fact), clapped my hands, closed my eyes, and felt a tingle all the way down to my toes, as if I had just swallowed a blast of whisky. Wait a minute, maybe it was a blast of whisky. No, that was later. Just then it was the good news.
But first some bad news: As of this writing, neither Al Gore nor Tom Daschle have been struck dumb. Worse, they are not only physically capable of speech, there are a hundred million Americans who get warm and giggly listening to them.
Read more... The failure of Chet Baker.Sep 23, 2002, Vol. 8, No. 02 • By STEPHEN SCHWARTZDeep in a Dream
The Long Night of Chet Baker
by James Gavin
Knopf, 416 pp., $26.95
AT THIRTEEN, living in Marin County, California, I worshipped Chet Baker, the trumpet star of "West Coast" jazz. I also idolized the saxophonists Gerry Mulligan, Stan Getz, and Lee Konitz, a sax star I saw repeatedly in an obscure restaurant where underage kids were admitted.
Read more... The dissonant life and times of Charlie Mingus.May 6, 2002, Vol. 7, No. 33 • By HARRY SIEGELTonight at Noon
A Love Story
by Sue Graham Mingus
Pantheon Books, 288 pp., $24
FOR MANY, the name Charlie Mingus conjures the image of a goatee-sporting, jive-talking jazz bassist and composer, a mixture of New York beatnik and Angry Black Man. Mingus was all of those things. He hung out with Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary, denounced the white race, and worked at moving past the cant and sentimentality of a racially defined identity.
Read more... Like Andre Agassi and Marky Mark before them, two would-be terrorists shaved their bodies.11:01 PM, Nov 7, 2001 • By DAVID SKINNERI.
"A DEGRADED SENSUALISM deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity." Winston Churchill said this of peoples living under "Mohammedanism."
One wonders what the last lion might have said about the two suspected terrorists discovered on a train in Texas on September 12. Arrested by the FBI, the Muslims were carrying box cutters, $5,500 in cash, and copies of fake passports--in the photos of which the suspects appeared in various disguises including beards and glasses and whatnot.
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